The annual Anaheim Fall Festival & Halloween Parade will be held on Saturday, October 26, 2024 at downtown Anaheim and Anaheim City Hall. Since 1924, the Anaheim Halloween Parade has been a source of civic pride and a catalyst for community involvement.
The fun starts at 11 a.m. with food booths and trucks, entertainment and a haunted house. The parade starts at 7 p.m. with elaborate, nostalgic floats and movie-quality costumes
Anaheim Fall Festival
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Festival Place: Downtown Anaheim, Center St Promenade
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Festival Time: 11 am to 6 pm
Kidding Costume Contest Registration: 11 am to 11:45 am
Kiddie Costume Contest Start: Noon
Doggie Costume Contest Registration: 2 pm to 2:45 pm
Doggie Costume Contest Start: 3 pm
Parade Start Time: 7 pm
Where: Downtown Anaheim
Parade Start: City Hall (200 S Anaheim Blvd, Anaheim, CA 92805)
The parade will start this year at 7 pm at City Hall and proceed west via Center Street and Broadway.
Admission: Free
Anaheim Fall Festival Halloween Parade
With the renewed participation of Anaheim’s residents and businesses, the Halloween Parade committee is striving to restore and build upon these core values.
The parade features elaborate, nostalgic floats and movie-quality costumes. And, of course, there’s Andy Anaheim, the city of Anaheim’s mascot dating back to the 1950s. He bangs a giant drum and leads the parade.
About 70,000 people line the parade route each year.
If you would like to participate in the Anaheim Halloween Parade, be sure to submit your application soon as spots fill up quickly! Applications must be received by October 1st to be eligible for participation.
Anaheim Fall Festival Activities
The fun starts with food booths and trucks, entertainment and a haunted house.
Kiddie Costume Contest
Boys and girls, ages 12 and under, are welcome to join in their best costumes.
All contestants will parade across the stage to showcase their costumes for the judges and the crowd. Winners will receive prizes.
The costume contest is free to enter, must register the day of the contest.
Doggie Costume Contest
The costume contest is free to enter, must register the day of the contest.
Dogs must be on a leash, comfortable with crowds, licensed and vaccinated.
Only dogs may participate. No cats or other types of animals.
Volunteers
It takes hundreds of folks to run this event, from fundraisers to float builders, decorators to day of ‘do-ers’. Contact the festival organizers to join the list of volunteers.